Surveying your Funding Landscape

Surveying Your Funding Landscape

When you are relying on funding in order to fulfil your research ambitions, you need to know as much as possible about who is ‘out there’ funding work like yours, what they prioritise and how your research could ‘fit’.

How do you ensure you are up to date with what funding opportunities are ‘out there’? Are you giving yourself the best chance of securing funding by being sufficiently familiar with the range of funding sources available? You will pick up some ideas around how best to keep your ear to the ground and look at some of the resources available to help you quickly and easily identify appropriate sources of funding. You will review examples of funders’ priorities with a view to assessing whether an application is worth a try, as well as start considering ways to fulfil funders requirements more fully, such as through collaboration.

This session is for you if:

• You want to develop a better understanding of your funding landscape
• You want to widen your funding options
• You want to explore the potential for collaboration as a means of achieving funding success

Key features of the session:

• Share insights and experiences with other researchers
• Reflect on your approach to finding funds and how you might develop more helpful habits
• Learn how to search for funding and check funders’ remits using Research Professional and Grantfinder